Don’t use the META Refresh tag to redirect visitors. Most search engines will consider it spam, especially if it redirects right away. You could use ASP, PHP, or another such technology for this purpose, or change the ".htaccess" file to use the “301” redirect, meaning that the site moved permanently. An example of this would be: Redirect 301 /old-page.htm http://www.somesite.com/new-page.htm
October 9, 2005
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I checked and my page is set to "refresh" every 60 seconds, but all it does is refresh. It does not redirect. Is this OK to have? Any idea why it refreshes so often? I bought this site from another company in the same industry but did not have it built myself.
Comment by Jason — October 14, 2005 @ 12:02 pm
Jason,
Refreshing to the same address is ok, but even if it redirects to a different url with the same content( i.e. some CMS’s use random identifiers to track different sessions/requests), it’s potentially harmful.
The question is, is there a reason for the refresh at all? If no, then remove it just to be on the safe site. Apart from e-mails, old HTML chat, and some ultra-active newsgroups, I don’t see any reason to forcibly refresh a page.
Cheers,
Max
Comment by Max — October 15, 2005 @ 12:05 am